In historic election, SBC Executive Committee elects first African American chair
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee elected its first African American chair in a special called meeting June 16.
BRN Exec Barry Whitworth offers a prayer for exhausted pastors
With the state of our world today, it's not surprising that pastors are feeling overwhelmed. Pastors, we want you to know the Baptist Resource Network is rooting for you. We know you are carrying heavy loads, and we are praying for you! Listen to Barry Whitworth's prayer here.
Leading the Church into the Future
Effective leaders know what matters. They hold tightly to the mission and the message, but they hold loosely to the means.
Pastoral ministry and mental health
Don't assume your pastor has it all together. Statistics show he's likely burned out; he's likely lonely; he's likely exhausted. Help him catch a break by showing him the love of Christ, who will never turn us away for our emotional difficulties.
Peter Yanes: We’re better together
Peter Yanes said he was so blessed to experience a culture of 'coming together' through the partnership of the Cooperative Program, where churches of the Baptist Convention in Pennsylvania/South Jersey were able to reach various ethnicities of Asians, Haitians, Arabs, Slavic people, Hispanic people and others with the Gospel.
COVID-19 puts ‘true value of the Cooperative Program on full display’
Noting cooperation is a trademark of Southern Baptists and that we're seeing it lived out at this time, BRN Executive Director Barry Whitworth celebrates the nearly 100,000 meals being delivered to 40 of our BRN churches to distribute to people in their communities.
Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup
The novel coronavirus is not just something for leaders to “get through” for a few days or weeks. Instead, it is an economic and cultural blizzard, winter, and beginning of a “little ice age” — a once-in-a-lifetime change that is likely to affect our lives and organizations for years.
College students spend spring break in North Carolina
Twenty college students from California University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven University, Penn State University and from Edinboro Community Church chose to use their spring break to worship God and to help people recover from Hurricane Florence in Rose Hill, N.C.